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TIL the Andromeda galaxy is heading towards us at 250,000 miles per hour. We are expected to collide with it in 4 billion years.

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wLyGM TIL about Second Lieutenant Vladimir Kotlinsky of the Russian Imperial Army, who led a charge against the Germans after an attack with chlorine gas on WWI, while his and his men bodies were dissolving because of the chemicals action on their flesh
mxX4p TIL married men make 10 to 20% more money on average than men who choose to stay single their entire lives.
R5L0l TIL before Mazda was a car company they were car bulbs a trademark of GE
5YKDr TIL the US military tried to develop a "gay bomb" that would use an aphrodisiac chemical to cause enemy troops to have strong homosexual feelings, which was supposed to damage morale and discipline in a non-lethal way.
GAWDG TIL More than 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans and as a result, we know more about the surface of Mars than Earth